How ESGOS compiles market intelligence

Market-intelligence articles are the editorial layer of ESGOS. They describe the sustainability and carbon rules that apply in the markets the registry covers — what is in force, what is coming, whom it binds, and which verification standards it names. This piece explains how those articles are compiled, so a reader can judge what they are and what they are not.

Primary sources only

Every article is written from primary sources: gazettes, regulators, exchanges, and the official journals in which a rule is published. Commentary, press coverage and vendor material are not sources. Where a rule originates in the European Union and binds exporters elsewhere, the source is the EU legal text itself.

Each source is recorded in the article’s frontmatter with its title, publisher, URL, and the date on which it was retrieved. The Sources list at the foot of an article is generated from that record, and the numbered footnotes in the text point into it.¹

One claim, one source, one date

An article’s factual statements are held in a claims table alongside the text: each row is the sentence as it appears, the source it rests on, the date that source was read, and a confidence level. The table is rendered on the page under What this article states, and where it comes from, so the audit surface is public rather than internal.

A build-time check enforces the discipline. It fails the build when a date written in the body has no matching claim row, when a regime or category named in the frontmatter is unknown to the registry, when a footnote points at an undeclared source, or when an article is marked published without a reviewer. An article that cannot pass the check does not appear.

Cross-check and owner review

After drafting, every claim is re-read against its cited source and drift is corrected. Only then does the owner review the piece; the reviewer’s stamp appears in the article header, and no article is published without them. Drafts are invisible: they are excluded from the index, the feed and the sitemap.

Regime cards and organisation blocks

The regime cards on an article are drawn live from the registry’s regimes table — name, kind, effective date, threshold, required verification standard, and the source link — and are facts, not summary. The organisation blocks list organisations from the public directory that match the article’s declared category and market, in the same order the directory uses everywhere. Articles carry no field in which an author could name an organisation; a listing in a block is a directory fact and nothing more. A tier badge means the organisation has claimed its own listing and had submitted evidence verified; most listings carry verifications from public registers and no badge, so the record is what to read.

The boundary

Every article opens and closes with the same statement, placed by the layout rather than typed by the author: market intelligence on ESGOS is editorial, compiled from public sources on the dates shown; it is not legal, tax or compliance advice; and it does not change any organisation’s verification status. Read the articles as a dated, sourced briefing, and follow the footnotes to the documents themselves.

Details of how verification itself works — evidence, verifiers, expiry, disputes — are on the methodology page.

Footnotes

1. ESGOS methodology, ESGOS. ↩